Here is a run-down of the features in Version 1.x and Version 2.x


Interface

1.x

2.x

Simple, clean interface for capture

X

X

Customizable interface controls


X

Notes tool


X

History tool showing all processing steps


X

Quickly preview / rename / delete files

X

X




Capture



Scripting of captures

X

X

CCD Temperature regulation

X

X

PHD Guiding connection for dither and pause


X

SBIG filter wheel and shutter control


X

QSI filter wheel and shutter control


X

Preview mode

X

X

Frame and Focus Mode

X

X

Fine Focus tool

X

X

Advanced HFR focus metric


X

Exposure and series progress dialog

X

X

Pause / unpause Frame/Focus and Fine Focus


X




Pre-processing and Stacking

1.x

2.x

Dark, flat, and bias pre-processing

X

X

Bad Pixel mapping

X

X+

Translation-only alignment

X

X

Translation + Rotation + (Scaling)

X

X

Drizzle alignment and stacking

X

X

Sigma-clip / Standard deviation stacking

X

X

Colors in Motion aligment and stacking

X

X

Advanced VNG debayer

X

X

Pixel squaring

X

X




Processing

1.x

2.x

Unlimited undo/redo

X

X

32-bit per color (96-bit total) internal math

X

X

Core routines in double-precision

X

X

Levels / Power stretch

X

X+

Curves


X

Digital Development Processing (DDP)

X

X

Morphological star tighten

X

X

Image normalization

X

X

Line filter reconstruction for One Shot Color cams

X

X

Extract individual components of Bayer matrix


X

Software binning

X

X

Blurring

X

X

Basic intensity scaling (multiplication)

X


Pixel math


X

Vertical smoothing (deinterlacing)

X

X

Adaptive median noise reduction

X

X

GREYC noise reduction


X

Flipping, mirroring, and rotating images

X

X

Image resizing (bicubic, Catmull-Rom, Lanczos, etc.)

X

X

Image crop

X

X+

Remove color background / skyglow (color offset)

X

X

Color scaling

X

X

Hue, saturation, luminance tool


X

LRGB color synthesis w/3 LRGB modes

X

X

Input / Output

1.x

2.x

Support for 16-bit/color (48-bit total) FITS, PNG, & TIFF

X

X

32-bit/color floating point FITS

X

X

8-bit/color JPEG and BMP

X

X

Load Canon CR2 and CRW RAW

X

X

Batch convert between graphics formats and FITS

X

X